ECON 499 Senior Project for Economics Majors
● During the junior year, students explore ideas for research topics for their senior project
● Student decides topic prior to registering for ECON 499 Senior Project
● Student reviews list of economics professors and looks for professor with research interests or teaching areas that match the student’s research topic.
● Student identifies a 1st, 2nd, 3rd choice for instructor for ECON 499
● Student completes Directed Study and Registration forms. Submit to assigned Academic Advisor
● Academic Advisor works with CBPM to help student get registered for ECON 499
● Student schedules meeting with professor to start discussion ECON 499 research project
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Economics Professor
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Research interests and Teaching areas
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Dr. Ryan Lee
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Research interests: trade agreements, labor market effects of immigration
law, impact of ballot drop boxes on voting, and government policies such as these topics: Medicare and the Affordable Care Act, Student Loan
Forgiveness, Infrastructure, Section 8 Housing, School Vouchers, SNAP (Food Stamps), Paid Family and Medical Leave, Opioid Crisis, Pollution, Crime.
Teaching areas: Macro Economics Comparative Economics, Public Finance & Fiscal Policy
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Dr. Tong Zeng
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Research interests: econometric theory and applications in different areas such as microeconomics, health, marketing, management and finance.
Teaching areas: economic analysis (microeconomics), econometrics,
statistics, business statistics, applied quantitative analysis and econometrics in finance.
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Dr. Ahmed Ispahani
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Teaching areas: Macro and Micro Economics, International Economics, and other courses
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Dr. Gonyung Park
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Teaching areas: Intermediate Micro Economics, Macro and Micro Economics, and other courses
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ECON 499 Senior Project
This is the culminating activity required for economics majors. Students will investigate and research an economic idea, theoretical issue, policy problem, or interest. Students will prepare and write their research paper under the guidance of an economics faculty member.
Requirements:
• Paper should be a minimum of 30 pages in APA format
• Refer to below rubric table
Resources:
• Conduct Literature Review
• Research, read, and synthesize literature from economics journals and other scholarly articles about the chosen research topic into an annotated bibliography.
• Student support and resources
• Schedule an appointment with a librarian in the Wilson Library to learn about student resources (how to research articles, APA format, research guidance)
• Academic Technology Support Office (technology, SPSS, Qualtrics, other software)
• Academic Success Center (tutoring for writing and statistics)